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To have received the cut discourteous from his future father-in- law might have been the most commonplace of incidents, Lessingham evinced not a trace of discomposure. So far as I could judge, he took no notice of the episode whatever, behaving exactly as if nothing had happened. He merely waited till Mr Lindon was well off the steps; then, turning to me, he placidly observed,
"No, sir, he has run away and left me. He said he would. I saw him go out of the window, and he took a bundle with him, and and what shall I do? What shall I do?" "Took a bundle?" said Uncle Josiah, starting. "Yes, sir, and and I wish I was dead." "Silence, you foolish little woman! How dare you wish such a thing? Stop; listen to what I say. Did my nephew Lindon come to the yard last night?"
Do you really think that Sydney's opinion, or your opinion, is likely to alter facts? 'Do you hear, Atherton, tell this wretched girl the truth! 'My dear Mr Lindon, I have already told you that I know nothing either for or against Mr Lessingham except what is known to all the world. 'Exactly, and all the world knows him to be a miserable adventurer who is scheming to entrap my daughter.
'Don't be so sure women often say what they mean least. Who's the lady? 'Who? Is there more women in the world than one for me, or has there ever been? You ask me who! What does the word mean to me but Marjorie Lindon! 'Marjorie Lindon? I fancy that my jaw dropped open, that, to use his own vernacular, I was 'all of a heap. I felt like it.
If I am not mistaken as to the identity of the person whom the constable describes as the Arab, I apprehend that the contents of that bundle were of much more importance to him than if they had consisted of Miss Lindon, either dead or living. More.
Mr Lindon, I fear, because, politically, we differ, regards me as anathema. Has he put some of his spirit into you? You are a wiser man. 'I am aware that you are an adept with words. But this is a case in which words only will not serve. 'Then what will serve? 'I am myself beginning to wonder. 'And I. 'As you so courteously suggest, I believe I am wiser than Lindon.
That was the most sensible thing he said; if such a tormentor as gout can be consigned to the nether regions by the mere utterance of a word, by all means let the word be uttered. Off he went again. 'The man's a ruffianly, rascally, and so on. 'There's not such a villainous vagabond and all the rest of it. 'And I order you, I'm a Lindon, and I order you! I'm your father, and I order you!
Wilson Eyre, Jr., of Philadelphia, has just finished designing a second formal garden, which is said to be delightfully un-American; and Mr. Frank Miles Day's Horticultural Hall is nearly ready to receive the mural coloring and allegorical painting which Mr. Joseph Lindon Smith is to execute. The latter will be a conspicuous departure from ordinarily accepted models.
I am even prepared to admit that he is a man of ability, in his way! which is, emphatically, not mine. But to think of him in connection with such a girl as Marjorie Lindon, preposterous! Why, the man's as dry as a stick, drier! And cold as an iceberg. Nothing but a politician, absolutely. He a lover! how I could fancy such a stroke of humour setting all the benches in a roar.
He knew that he was unpopular in the school, but he had not looked for this sort of thing. Then somebody suddenly remembered having heard one of the pair address the other by name. "What name?" asked Sheen. His informant was not sure. Would it be Lindon? "Linton," said Sheen. That was it. Sheen thanked him and departed, still puzzled.
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